Sentence examples for pakistani from inspiring English sources

Three members of the Pakistani cricket team were exposed in the British press for accepting bribes to bowl deliberate no-balls in the Lord's Test against England in August 2010.

Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani education campaigner shot on a school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children's rights activist.

His parents practised this kind of rural Pakistani version of Islam and that didn't fit for him.

It pursued US firms doing business with a Pakistani company with no real ties to terrorism.

Following the massacre by the Pakistani Taliban of 141 people at a school in Peshawar this week, Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, vowed his country would "continue the war against terrorism until the last terrorist is eliminated".

Also on Friday, a leading Pakistani Taliban splinter group praised the "blessed attacks in France" but had harsh words for governments and media in the Islamic world, who the group said had not condemned the magazine forcefully enough.

Earlier this month, [Mark Harper, the immigration minister] told MPs that just one Pakistani man had been persuaded to leave the country as a result of the campaign over the summer.

An attempt by militants to take over a Pakistani navy frigate in port in Karachi shortly after that announcement failed – but only just, western officials in Delhi said.

Both the two main remaining factions are based in Pakistan: one is reported to be based in the southern port city of Karachi and under the supervision of Pakistani security services there, and the other is increasingly close to al-Qaida, officials in Delhi believe.

Brown – whose husband, the former prime minister Gordon Brown, had earlier praised Malala at the event in New York – congratulated the Pakistani government for passing a law making primary school education mandatory.

Pakistani officials confirmed on Friday that only two men have been convicted for the attempted killing of the education activist Malala Yousafzai, not 10 as lawyers from her home region of Swat had initially claimed.